Welcome to Accidental Repertory Theater
This spring, ART's Artistic Director, John Strasberg, is directing a stage version of Woody Allen's late 1970's film, Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, in Warsaw, Poland, with six well-known Polish actors. The play, like the movie, is a lyrical, romantic comedy, about marriage, love, and sexual confusion. It was Woody Allen's homage to Shakespeare. Set in Poland at the turn of the 19th Century, the production premieres March 15th.
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Previously at Accidental Rep...
Living Room Series
From Stanislavski to Strasberg to Strasberg
Thursday December 3 at 8pm.
This informal lecture explores the obsessions, personalities and problems of these artists that influenced the way in which their work process evolved, such as: Stanislavski's difficulty in being concentrated and truthful as an actor, Lee Strasberg's difficulty in expressing personal feeling, and John Strasberg's overwhelming insecurity and need to trust his own sense of truth and intuition in the face of The Method and his father's success. It also clarifies the reality of what the Actors Studio was, and the misconceptions that are held as to what The Method was and is.
Suggested contribution: $10
The Organic Creative Process
and the Nine Natural Laws of Creativity
Thursday December 10 at 8pm.
In a sequel to the first lecture, Mr. Strasberg explains how his work evolved from that of Stanislavski and the American school that followed — Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler and Sandy Meisner — whose brilliant work broke the creative process down into its separate parts. Stanislavski, The Method, Meisner, Adler: each system focuses on particular aspects that process. Their development was a natural consequence of mechanical, linear thinking (Descartes and Newton) that has dominated human thought processes since the 18th Century.
While all of them recognize and revere talent and inspiration, they considered those realities part of God's work, mystical, undefinable, invisible. John Strasberg's discovery of the Organic Creative Process begins where they leave off. It is an organic, rather than a mechanical, process, based on the reality that life is not programmed in the mind, but is the process of one's talent, imagination, intelligence, knowledge, and ability to be spontaneous. The lecture deals with his discoveries, and the Nine Natural Laws of Creativity.
Suggested contribution: $10
The fall 2009 season will be presented at John Strasberg Studios, 555 Eighth Avenue (at 38th Street), Suite 403.
For tickets call 646.435.7867 or email tickets@accidentalrep.org. Please include a phone number on all reservations.
Full House Series
Brecht on Brecht
by George Tabori
directed by John Strasberg
music director Ross Patterson
With: Virginia Armitage, Judy Krause*, Audrey Lavine*, Jerry Marsini*, Anne Pasquale*, Robert Rowe*, Louis Vuolo*.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday October 29 - November 21 at 8pm.
Additional perfomance Sunday, November 1 at 7:30pm
In the more than 50 years since his death in 1956, Brecht’s name has become a household word wherever theater is known, and especially where it is made. Brecht was dedicated to creating theater that was both real and appealing. At Accidental Rep we share those goals, and also the spirit of spontaneity that pervaded the original production of Brecht on Brecht. While the framework of the piece remains constant, from night to night the text and actors may change.
"We tried to teach and entertain ourselves before sharing our experiences with the audience," George Tabori wrote. With scene and word and song we hope to do the same for ourselves and for you.
See also our calendar.
*Appears courtesy of Actors' Equity Association.
This production is an Equity approved Showcase.
Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.